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The right lane and shoulder of northbound upper Lake Shore Drive will be closed Monday between Illinois Street and Grand Avenue as construction begins on the Navy Pier Flyover project. The $60 million, three-phase elevated lakefront path is expected to stretch from south of the Chicago River Bridge to Jane Addams Park. The upper Lake Shore Drive exit ramp to Illinois Street will also be reduced to one lane on Monday, according to a city news release. The lakefront trail, however, is expected to remain open for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, according to the city.

Sunday's police standoff that prompted the second emergency shutdown of North Lake Shore Drive in three years has raised serious concerns about public safety and tested the patience of drivers, some of whom were stranded for hours without an escape route. Both situations that temporarily closed the drive were extraordinary events - a fierce blizzard in February 2011 that paralyzed much of the Midwest, and a miles-long police chase of a murder suspect that morphed into a nearly nine-hour impasse in Chicago near the Fullerton Parkway exit.

By Deanese Williams-Harris and Adam Sege and Tribune reporters | March 18, 2014

The man at the center of last weekend's Lake Shore Drive standoff topped 100 mph during an expressway police pursuit, drew fire from three officers and hit a squad SUV so hard it went airborne, a prosecutor said Tuesday. The new details were disclosed as charges were filed against Joseph Felton, 44, formerly of the 700 block of Union Avenue in University Park. He was charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery/use of a deadly weapon and aggravated fleeing of police more than 21 mph over the speed limit.

Lake Shore Drive completely reopened around 4:20 a.m. this morning, according to Chicago police, hours after a standoff lasting more than 8 hours closed lanes in both directions. Police late Sunday took into custody a Chicago-area man wanted in connection with his wife's killing in Georgia after police pursued his car from south suburban Harvey to North Lake Shore Drive, where the car crashed and a standoff paralyzed the busy roadway. The Henry County, Ga., sheriff's Office had contacted Harvey police about the location of a vehicle wanted in connection with a murder and police located the car about 12:24 p.m., but the car fled and was pursued to near Fullerton Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, according to a statement from Harvey.

Police fired two separate times at a murder suspect during a chase on Lake Shore Drive, but they did not hit him and eventually used a flash-bang grenade to subdue him and end a nearly nine-hour standoff near the Fullerton exit, officials said. Joseph Andrew Felton Jr., 43 -- a suspect in the death of his wife in Georgia earlier this month -- was found bleeding from cuts to his wrists, apparently self-inflicted, when SWAT officers approached his black Chrysler 300 Sunday night, police sources said.

The battle for control of the Chicago Spire site is grabbing headlines, but the Spire's chances of getting built are slimmer than the twisting profile of the proposed 2,000-footer at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive. If Atlas Apartment Holdings, the Northbrook-based apartment development company that appears to have won the fight, is serious about constructing the Santiago Calatrava-designed skyscraper, it will likely need to raise at least $1 billion. Can Atlas do that in this recovering, but hardly roaring, economy?

"The Machine Inside: Biomechanics" Through Jan. 4, 2015, at the Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive (312-665-7400, fieldmuseum.org ) The gist: Discover the biological secrets of everything from cheetahs to ants to Venus flytraps. Go if you ever wondered how a giraffe manages to pump blood all the way up that loooong neck. Kids will love watching a robot try to walk like a human. Surprise! Turns out that the creature with the most super-powered olfactory sense is the luna moth, whose antennae help it smell mates up to 7 miles away.

Even as Northwestern University dismantles the concrete shells of the old Prentice Women's Hospital, preservationists can take solace in a nearby victory: the freshly renovated Lake Shore Athletic Club, a former jock palace that once housed a running track, a pistol range, a bowling alley and a swimming pool where Olympic gold medalist and Tarzan movie star Johnny Weissmuller trained. In 2007, Northwestern was poised to sell the civilized 1927 building at 850 N. Lake Shore Drive to Fifield Realty Corp., which sought to raze it to make way for a Lucien Lagrange-designed condo tower.

The idea of car-free streets might seem pointless to some, but if selected thoughtfully they are just the kind of peaceful havens that are in too-short supply in Chicago, a civic group says. That group, which for years has advocated pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly Chicago streets, is releasing a proposal Wednesday for 20 car-free areas and public plazas across the city. The Active Transportation Alliance's objective is to make downtown and the neighborhoods more attractive places to live and shop, and to help residents get around easily and safely by promoting more bicycling and walking while also reducing traffic accidents, officials at the alliance said.

By Scott Kleinberg and Chicago Tribune social media editor | January 22, 2014

In today's news, Lake Shore Drive smells like a "windswept blend of fresh water, shoreline woods and a hint of mint. " Nope, nope and nope. We couldn't believe it when we saw the tweet from Gapers Block pop up, but that's what Bath & Body Works says about its candle called 'Lakeshore Drive.' "Picture breathtaking Lake Michigan and Chicago's spectacular skyline with this windswept blend of fresh water, shoreline woods and a hint...